Defense Bill signed by President Obama on New years eve.

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HONOLULU – President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having "serious reservations" about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.
The bill also applies penalties against Iran's central bank in an effort to hamper Tehran's ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program. The Obama administration is looking to soften the impact of those penalties because of concerns that they could lead to a spike in global oil prices or cause economic hardship on U.S. allies that import petroleum from Iran.

In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country.
Administration officials said Obama was only signing the measure because Congress made minimally acceptable changes that no longer challenged the president's terrorism-fighting ability.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/31/obama-signs-defense-bill-despite-reservations/#ixzz1iP2mkbkM

[RC]

1. Nowhere in the pro/con discussion of this bill, is there anything

about protecting the rights of real people, American or otherwise. This bill is more about taking away our Constitutional Rights and Human Rights under the Geneva Convention.
Bubbles are beginning to form on the bottom of the pot we frogs are setting in.

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4. Lindsey Graham told them to shut up...

I looked for the video, but could not find it....

[mmonk]

2. Oil prices? That's a new one.

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3. That was a bit odd wasn't it...